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Three Early Lessons for the President

My Townhall column, Three Early Lessons for President Obama, is up. 

The first is that "bipartisanship" requires more than simple politeness and civility to one's opponents.  There needs to be action behind the rhetoric.

Seems obvious, doesn't it -- but it's not something that a man who's come of age only in left-wing hothouses, from The Harvard Law Review to Illinois state politics, would necessarily realize.